Technically, the law prohibits "multiplicity of litigation". Simply put, that means there ought to be only one legal action filed regarding the same issue or problem, such as a divorce. Accordingly, the person who files the divorce first controls the divorce process...

Over the decades, once in a great while, I have been contacted by a defendant (not my client, but my client's ex) in a divorce I filed or by such a person's lawyer and was informed that that defendant just found out, many months or even years later, that my client had...